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Photographs from the opening of HALF A SIXPENCE
This Sixties Tommy Steele vehicle is joyfully reborn in another Chichester Festival Theatre musical triumph, now comfortably ensconced in the West End. The unstoppable George Stiles and Anth…
Renowned choreographer Arlene Phillips is making her pantomime debut inas Fairy Bowbells in New Wimbledon Theatre's Christmas Pantomime, DICK WHITTINGTON, from Friday 9 December 2016 to Sund…
Singer and actor Jack Shalloo's theatre credits include Madness musical Our House, Departure Lounge and Hamlet the Musical, and he released an album, London Soul, in 2011. He's currently app…
Andrew Lloyd Webber may seem an unlikely rock god, but he's harnessedanarchic musical liberation forthis big-hearted, irresistibly entertaining new show, adapted from the popular Jack Black …
Watch videos of the West End cast of DEAD FUNNY at Vaudeville Theatre
Actor Jeremy Irvine got his big break as the lead in Steven Spielberg's film version of War Horse. His other screen credits include Great Expectations, The Railway Man and Stonewall,but he's…
Composer Howard Goodall's remarkable career ranges from lauded choral works to West End musical Bend It Like Beckham, the Emmy Award-winning score for HBO film Into the Storm, and themes for…
New musical SCHOOL OF ROCK opened at the West End's New London Theatre tonight. Based on the smash hit 2003 film of the same title, the showfeatures music from the movie, as well as new musi…
Last night, theatre luminaries turned out for the Evening Standard Awards at the Old Vic, where winners included Glenn Close, Ralph Fiennes, Billie PiperandHarry Potter and the Cursed Child.…
The latest instalment ofLET THERE BE LIGHT, our series showcasing some of Britain's best theatrical lighting designers, focuses onLucy Carter. A regular collaborator with Wayne McGregor, as …
Like David Bowie himself, this is a show that defies definition. It's both all and none of a musical, a play, a gig, performance art, philosophical meditation, a fever dream, a collective tr…
Last week, Matilda the Musical - that soaring celebration of storytelling - marked its fifth year in the West End. Appropriately enough, the show begins with a birthday party in the marvello…
Last night, a starry crowd turned out for JURASSIC PARK LIVE at London's Royal Albert Hall. The iconic venue hosts the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's masterpiece in a film and live orc…
Last night, Meat Loaf launched Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell - The Musical in a special live preview event outside London Coliseum in the West End. Meat Loafand producer Michael Cohlintrodu…
A flawed musical about conjoined twins is elevated by its central pairComposer Henry Krieger's highly anticipated Dreamgirls arrives later this month, but first up is the UK premiere of his …
Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, producers of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, announce today that a further 60,000 tickets will be released for sal…
London is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From Bowie's Lazarus and Glenda Jackson's King Learto Mark Rylance's retur…
Clive Francis's varied stage and screen career includes A Clockwork Orange, Entertaining Mr Sloane, the originalPoldarkand upcoming Netflix drama The Crown. He's currently starring in Stephe…
Leading theatre publisherNick Hern BooksNHB has acquired the rights to publishNice Fish, the new play by multi-award-winning actorMark Rylanceand acclaimed prose poetLouis Jenkins, alongside…
From today, there's a 48-hour priority sale for the new Old Vic season, including the 50th anniversary production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, starring Daniel Rad…
Following on from the success of his 2016 Maastricht Concert in cinemas earlier this year, which took more than 1.4 million at the UK box office in one weekendand became the highest grossing…
It's not just the title that's daunting in Tony Kushner's exhaustive three-and-a-half-hour epic, which tackles everything from socialist history, belief systems and family dysfunction to mat…
This week, the cast of West End hit THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY - which recently announced a booking extension until October 2017 - tackled new interactive game The Million Pound Heist. …
Since winning hearts during his stint on Strictly Come Dancing, partnered by Flavia Cacace, actor and astrologer Russell Grant has starred in Hairspray, Grease and The Wizard of Oz. He's now…
